Unheard keys
Messing around with unusual clean moods and cringing note clusters. Composers are less and less scared of deriving from our comfortable same-floating mood. Especially keyboard instruments are a great tool for experimenting with sound. Whether its a slightly adapted organ or a micro-tonal tuned piano, composers are suddenly becoming sound wizards. In this broadcast of Feature, some recent CD releases of unusual and unheard music on keys. We hear the works of Aliona Yurtsevich, Peter Adriaansz and David First’s extraordinary World Casio Quartet. And the integral piano works ‘just intonation’ ‘Six Primes’ (2014) by American Chris Brown.
1. David First + The World Casio Quartet: ‘Strange Over’ (1987-1989) voor vier Casio-synthesizers, op David First/The World Casio Quartet: The Complete Gramavision Session (1989). The World Casio Quartet. Pogus P21084-2 CD
2-4. Peter Adriaansz: ‘Attachments’ (2013) in drie delen, voor piano, op Peter Adriaansz: Enclosures. Saskia Lankhoorn (piano) Ergodos ER25 CD
5. Aliona Yurtsevich: ‘Equanimity of Old’ (2008) voor mechanisch Bätz orgel en twee spelers, op Aliona Yurtsevich: Between two waves of the sea. Milena Dukanovich + Aliona Yurtsevich (Bätz-orgel) Pogus P21081-2 CD
6. David First + The World Casio Quartet: ‘Collapsing ‘Round Midnight’ (1987-1989) voor vier Casio-synthesizers, op David First/The World Casio Quartet: The Complete Gramavision Session (1989). The World Casio Quartet. Pogus P21084-2 CD
7. David First + The World Casio Quartet: ‘Cloud Bride’s Last Great Awakening at the Border of Splintered Souls’ (1987-1989) voor vier Casio-synthesizers, op David First/The World Casio Quartet: The Complete Gramavision Session (1989). The World Casio Quartet. Pogus P21084-2 CD
8. Chris Brown: ‘Six Primes’ (2014) op Six Primes. Chris Brown (piano). New World Records 80781-2 CD
